My Experiences with Ruby off Rails via @karlinfox

I was recently pointed to Ben Singelman’s post on Why Nobody Should Use Rails For Anything, Ever . We seem to never get enough of arguing about application frameworks: I’m not going to do that. What irks me is when Ruby get thrown out with the Rails bathwater. As one commenter on Singleman’s post demonstrates: “Interesting perspective. I agree on your general points — Ruby’s fine at an MVP stage I think, but when it comes to creating something for market, it just falls over.” (This despite the second sentence of the post stating “Independent of ruby , I see Rails as the emperor with no clothes on.”) I see posts like this a lot. It’s an opinion piece — the goal is to sway the reader to have the same opinion. Like many similar posts, the title is hyperbolic, the conclusion a tad more pragmatic. Which is fine. I read it because we write a lot of web apps at Atomic, and we fre...